McDonald’s To Bring More “Worldwide Favorite” menu items To U.S. Restaurants

Even
more of McDonald’s “Worldwide Favorite” menu items are coming
to U.S. restaurants, but it could take close to a year for these
items to reach all areas around the nation. First, they’ll be
offered in Connecticut locations before the summer 2020 rollout
everywhere else if they’re successful.

These
new items will be available in less than 100 Connecticut restaurants,
and include the following:

Caramel
Brownie McFlurry (Canada)

Grand
Premium Chicken (France)

McChicken
McMuffin (Japan)

Savory
Ranch Burger (Mexico)

The
Savory Ranch Burger comes across as the kind of burger that needs to
be on a fast-casual dining restaurant (think Red Robin and Chili’s).
It comes with bacon and ranch dressing on a beef patty. The Grand
Premium Chicken Sandwich is simply a breaded chicken fillet that
comes with a special sauce. The McChicken McMuffin is a chicken
fillet on a McMuffin (something you might see on the Chick-fil-A
menu.

The
Caramel Brownie McFlurry will offer strips of caramel between the
brownie chunks and vanilla ice cream.

The
latest new menu items come on the heels of the “Worldwide
Favorites” from countries such as Spain, Australia, Netherlands and
Canada.

The
items are going to be a bit more expensive than the usual food you
get from McDonald’s. For instance, the Double Grand McExtreme Bacon
Burger has a cost of nearly $10 compared to the original Double
Quarter Pounder, which cost about $8.

Though
the new items may bring in some customers, it’s the classics –
burgers, fries and shakes – that are still keeping the restaurants
afloat. According to McDonald’s, its two-for $5 promotion and
modern upgrades have helped to increase sales.

McDonald’s
is also reducing its cost by decreasing the amount of items it offers
on the late-night menu and cutting off the more expensive craft
sandwiches. It also announced the first line of international menu
items the company released didn’t receive the kind of consumer
interest that they had hoped for.